simonc
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Thanks moderators for joining up the threads. I thought some super fight had broken out over night and I missed it. Look the jean was turned up because the leg sizes were limited to one or two lengths; one would fall normally somewhere in between and turn them up so they sat just over your shoes. Length was only ever dictated by how short your pins were. Cuffs had function too. They allowed kids to grow down into their jeans, this lent a youth look to them, and before pockets were introduced into denim jackets cowboys would keep their tobacco/smokes in their cuffs. A single cuff was preferred to show off the chain-stitiching which gave a subtle feature to the ankle. The one thing we can all agree upon is that cuffs look great and they have been an integral part of every pop genre throughout modern history. Turn-ups have a rebellious style to them and an innocence. Indeed after wearing turn-ups for all my life I couldn't imagine not wearing them, they'd look like dad jeans, albeit being a dad. Just remember the trick to any sartorial style is less is more, less, less, less, and this is hard to do. So less cuff, less toe, less colour, less everything; as it is always more elegant and forces the onlooker to stare harder into the nuances of the wearer and thus elevates him above the garish.
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